Re: [PATCH] gnu: Replace python-pep8 by python-pycodestyle.

[Leo Famulari]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2016 at 10:39:50PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> * gnu/packages/python.scm (python-pep8, python2-pep8):
>   Add replacement.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/python.scm | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/python.scm b/gnu/packages/python.scm
> index 5b5287e..c6ec6d3 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/python.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/python.scm
> @@ -5645,6 +5645,7 @@ applications.")
>  (define-public python-pep8
>    (package
>      (name "python-pep8")
> +    (replacement python-pycodestyle)

The grafted replacement system is for packages that have the same binary
interface, and should be used when we must change a package *now* but it
would otherwise require a huge number of rebuilds. That is, for security
updates to core packages.

There aren't very many packages using python-pep8 and python2-pep8, so
we should just make them all use this new package that supersedes
python-pep8.